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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 38A: Romans 1–8 is unavailable, but you can change that!

See Romans in the light of modern historical and cultural studies with this commentary from ground breaking scholar James D.G. Dunn. Dunn maintains that it is imperative to grasp the coherence of Paul’s thought as it moves with sustained logic and consistent rigor from the opening announcement of God’s righteousness revealed in Christ and the gospel through each interlocking section of this...

of his covenant relationship within the relationship, the answer again is really both (cf. Barrett, 75–76). This is the basis of Käsemann’s quite proper and influential understanding of divine righteousness as a gift which has the character of power, because God is savingly active in it. Note the close parallelism here, “power of God”//“righteousness of God” (“Righteousness,” esp. 170, 172–76; cf., e.g., Althaus; Murray; Bornkamm, Paul, 147; Ziesler, 186–89; Kümmel, Theology, 197–98; Strecker, “Rechtfertigung,”
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